I grew up on the mid-1990s WD Caviar HDDs, and I’m wondering if there’s anything that’s louder at boot and data access.
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Back in the 90s I had an IBM 5500rpm (fast for the time) drive that was very fast but had a continuous reeeeeee sound while on
Maxtor Fireball.
Heh I remember those. When I was in undergrad doing work study with IT we had loads of laptops through the school year with burned controllers on those things.
Not 3.5", but I had a 5.25 FULL height micropolis 140MB SCSI drive (yes MB).
Thing was a boat anchor, but more relevant to the discussion here, when powered on, it would sound like a scene from topgun while it spun up. Crazy loud.
It sadly died when I accidentally proved that you can indeed plug in a molex connector upside down, as long as your push hard enough (it just momentarily made contact, but that was enough to let the magic smoke out).